Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-175) and index
Groundzeroland -- Literary terrorists: William Wordsworth, The Unabomber, Don DeLillo -- Solitary savages: Jack Henry Abbott/Norman Mailer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Scorsese, Bret Easton Ellis -- Crossing the line: Joseph Conrad, John Cassavetes, Thomas Mann, Francis Ford Coppola -- Rough trade: Jean Genet, Frederick Douglass -- Deliberate orphans: Herman Melville, J.M. Synge, Thomas Bernhard -- The last maniacal folly of Heinrich von Kleist (a fiction) -- Coda
Do killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? The authors explore this question through the disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political terror anchoring the discussion on the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center
Crimes of art + terror
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2003
Verlag:
University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Do killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? The authors explore this question through the disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political terror anchoring the discussion on the aftermath of the destruction of the...
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Do killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? The authors explore this question through the disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political terror anchoring the discussion on the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-175) and index. - Description based on print version record
GroundzerolandLiterary terrorists: William Wordsworth, The Unabomber, Don DeLillo -- Solitary savages: Jack Henry Abbott/Norman Mailer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Scorsese, Bret Easton Ellis -- Crossing the line: Joseph Conrad, John Cassavetes, Thomas Mann, Francis Ford Coppola -- Rough trade: Jean Genet, Frederick Douglass -- Deliberate orphans: Herman Melville, J.M. Synge, Thomas Bernhard -- The last maniacal folly of Heinrich von Kleist (a fiction) -- Coda.